The ME report revealed that “many stories were being told to investigating officers” surrounding Giovanni’s death, which made the investigation more challenging.

Investigators said the baby’s mother, Jessica Quezada, insisted that her son had been taken out of the car the night before he died and brought into the family’s apartment.

However, that statement conflicted with evidence and witnesses who said Giovanni was mistakenly left in the car overnight and died from overheating the next day, before family members realized he was in the sweltering vehicle.

An ME investigator noted in the report that Quezada “could not tell me how or why her son” was put back in the car and left there until the morning of July 27.

According to the report, the most consistent story was that the child’s father, Israel Soto, left him in the car after a trip to the grocery store.